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"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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Personal Development
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."
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"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"Look into your heart- and go after what you really want."
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"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
Faith
"There is no possible source of evil except good."
Evil
"You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You."
Spiritual
"The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ."
Religion
"For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?"
Spiritual
"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
Formula
"Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence."
Religion
"The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest."
Philosophy
"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand."
Debate
"What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God."
Ethics
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